Good afternoon today is thursday october 13, welcome to pub safety and Neighborhood Service of San Francisco board of supervisors. Im john avalos, the vice chair and will be joined by the chair jane kim. To my left is david campos. Our clerk today is victor young. Mr. Clerk could you tell announcements. Silence all celt phones and Electronic Devices. Speaker cards and copies of dumentds to be incluted ashould be submit today the clerk. Items will appear on soouct october 25, 2016 agenda. Thank you and like to thank s fgovtv staff. Mr. Clerk we will actually hear items 4, 5 and 6 first in that order. 4 first. These will be fairly quick and want to get them out oof of the way. Item 4, hearing to consider issuance of type 48 onsale license to real drinking jackalope located at 1092 post street included 1104 poemic street will serve the city and county of San Francisco. Very good. Thank you. Presenting is Sergeant George from the Police Department. Good afternoon supervisors. You have a pcm report for jackalope. They applied for a expansion to include 1104 polk street which will double their capacity. They have a type 48 license which allows them to sale on sale beer, wine and distilled spoorts and will include 1104 polk street also. There are zero letters of protest verified by abc. Zero letters of support. They are located in 541 which is considered high crime area. They are in census tract 120 which is considered a high saturation area. Northern station has no oppositions. Alu recommends deninel. The reason we recommend deninel is polk street evolved into a Entertainment District that reached its capacity. During special events such as halloween and new years eve the crowds overflow to the street which makeatize difficult for Emergency Responders to assist people in need. Departments concern is that expanding the Current Business or adding a new club at this time can agora great a area that is already difficult to manage. By jackalope adding the new premise it doubles capacity at this location. It should be noted that lieutenant fal zon and myself met with the applicant and explessed concern and informed we would deninel. Thank you very much. Did you get response from project sponsor . Um, they are here . Okay. Did you speak to the District Supervisor . I didnt. I dont know if lieutenant fal zone did. Wonder where the District Supervisor is on this item. Sorry, i cant answer that. I think that is important. If there is anyone from supervisor peskins office that can shed light that would be helpful. Thank you. If we can hear from the project sponsor, the applicant. Good afternoon supervisors. [inaudible] cla consulting. I wanted to first point out that this is not a new Liquor License, it is actually a existing license premise which will expand to 700 square feet to afford seating and hand y cap accessible bathrooms. There is no entrance on the polk side or exist. It is alarmed emergency exist only, no signage fwut will have additional lightsing. This had to get conditional youth and approved umaninously by the planings condition. We have letters of support. Abc provided letters of support as was alu and we provided this afternoon with letters of support from the lower Polk Neighborhood Association, sth middle Polk Neighborhood Association and Lower Polk Community benefit district. We had communicated with supervisor peskins office and our belief he is in support of the expansion project as well. Ill turn it over to the applicant, cory hunt. Just want today say quickly that we stilleven with the expansion we are still one of the smallest bars on the street. We are a neighborhood bar, we are not a club, we are not a dive bar, we have well trained staff and security. We improved the neighborhood a lot. It should be noted the current tenant in that space is a financial pay day loan place. We also have agreed to make sure that we sound proof both sides as part of the agreement with the landlord and thats about it. Great, thank you. At this time we open up for Public Comment on item number 4 only; if you like to speak on the itm please step up. Please line up against the window. Thank you. Thank you. Hi there. My name is ianima clain and live on pine between polk and larkin so of the neighborhood. Just wanted to point out that i sthink jackalope is a great meeting spot. I dont know on saturday night, but go to the trivy night jz watched president ial debates. I think it is a good Meeting Place for the neighborhood, so im support of this. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Hello. My name is anna. I also live in the neighborhood over on pacific. I am in support of the expansion as jackalope along with some of the other neighborhood bars offer so much more than just the opportunity to drink. Thrai about socializing, they are about community in the neighborhood. They offer a place to put down the cell phone and be around people from all walks of life that you wouldnt have normally gotten to meet. This expansion is about fostering the community through friendship and charity which we do weekly and unwavered respect for the city and its inhabitants. Thank you. My name is ron john i live on upper polk. I moved there 12 years ago and never used to go to lower polk because i felt it was not safe. Today it is very different and i think the is because of bars like jackalope which is vibrant and brings in professional and working cloud just there to relax. That whole area now is more vibrant and safer than it was before, so thank you. Thank you. My name is marti and live a copal blocks awafrom jackalope and lived in the sate 10 year jz seen it change for better and worse but i can just honestly say the folks at jackalope made a change for the better. Not only providing a safe fun place to socialize like everyone said before me, but just after the shootings in orlando they held an event that raised money for chairthy and raised for spca and Breast Cancer so the idea this is a good chaifg in the city and good people and giving more space to do more good things seems like the right choice to me. Thank you. [inaudible] im also a resident of the neighborhood and i known the operators for long time. They are strong good people. To reiterate what everybody essaid rchlt take over a pay day lending place and expand a good operating bar added security and cameras, sound proof, make it better for the resident in the building above and think they do a great job if they pass. Thanks. Zane howard, former resident of polk street area, but i do come to the city i frequent jackalope. The people that run jackalope are professionals and good people and create an environment that is very supportive to community and social and comfortable place that is safe and welcoming. Thank you. My name is sean [inaudible] i am a resident of the excelsior and coming to jackalope about a year now and the ownership is responsible, friendly, the crowd is neighborhood entd frndly and caring about the entire area and very cognisant about being outside, being on the streets, things like that and beyond the charity this provides a friendly and safe place for people to conrugreat and have a good time together. [inaudible] i have lived in the city for last several years. I want to stress what everyone else did is the owners have the upmost integrity, i think they are strong role models. I have known them a while and these are are the people you want in the community that build and expand our community and think they are very responsible and cant speak high enough about the ambition they have and what they are doing there chblt thank you. Thank you. Hi, my name is napeier, i think this expansion is a benefit for the lower polk street neighborhood. The owners of the establishment are good people. Theyepe chbed up multiple times for organizations and Nonprofit Charities which benefit the neighborhood and integrate new people to the community. Secondly, the expansion would bring more safety through the use of Security Camera jz staff. The bar is very cooperative welcoming towards Law Enforcement and use our security footage to assist with their requests. I fully support this expansion. Thank you. Thank you. Im adam mayor, representing the middle Polk Neighborhood Association and our Neighborhood Group support the expansion of jackalope into the adjacent space. The same Ownership Management Group has a bar in the middle polk neighborhood, soda pop on california between polk qu larkin and seen them as good stewards of the neighborhood managing noise on the street for the residents above, so we support their expansion. Thanks. Hell o, peter nemire and a resident about 10 years living in russian hill and knob hill about washington and clay i support the expansion. Like cory said they will make several improvements, which ums also help to address the fact it was a area that has crime so security footage and security that will help give people peace. Also, there are proven to be chairtable folks who want to improve the neighborhood and by enabling them it just helps the community and city as a whole. These are really the kinds of people we want to foster and help complete what they want. Thank you. Thank you very much. My name is eric wattcons and lib in the neighborhood. As everyone said before i support the bar. It is more that know just a bar. Speaker before me is a good friend i met at the bar. It goes beyaunds the space and things they do and character that comes from it and has times when i was unable to work they gave me a job and a friend. It helped me in many ways as well as i see it continually. It really is more than just a bar and even though this is like the legal portion to take care of that, it goes beyawn that for myself and fully support the bar as well. My name is ian powell, a property manager for prominent Property Management firm in the city. In particular we have probably close a dozen buildings within a three block radius of jackalope, 1020 post, 1050 post, 990 geary, 10 twux polk and 1024 polk. In the time jackalope is open we see increase in change in the neighborhood as a whole. Decreased crime. Decreased activity in the evenings and overall a great support for the neighborhood so here as that. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is charley gauss here has district 3 and polk street resident. Im a patron of jackalope and like to urge support for the expansion thmpt business they are looking to expand over is a Check Cashing business. Predatory business my nature, but also closes around 6 oclock and think if you allowed the business to expand that we would be providing or bar would provide additional security on the block as well as neighborhood presence. A number of people have spoken in favor of the bar and it provides a sense of community. Jackalope is open twoe years now and becoming a neighborhood institution and urge your support today and at the full board. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Duncan lie, i am speaking on behalf of the expansion of jackalope. The former chairman of the polk district Merchant Association. I have been coming to these types of hearings for well over a decade and the fact that you only heard people coming out in support of this, i remember when every organization in that community would come out out against any increase in alcohol, restaurant if it had to do with alcohol they would oppose those projects. The fact those organizations, lpm and middle polk and Merchant Association are support speak highly of the changes that happened in the neighborhood and the actors like cory and jave who take care of the premises so hopefully you will approve it. Thank you. Anyone else from the public . Thank you supervisor campos. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed on this item. I do want to appreciate all the members of the public who came out for item 4, it is really good to hear the neighborhood support for this license. I have a number of concerns given alu recommendation but looking and seeing this is within the lower polk street alcohol rud. I think most importantly i like to hear from the District Supervisor in terms of his thoughts on this issue and while i agree that a pay day loan is not the type of business we want here in our city and glad that it will be converted to a different type of use, and it seems there has been good history with the bar in the neighborhood, i thipg at this time i need a little more time before i feel comfortable moving forward with the recommendation. I just want to get a sense of all aspects and perpectives moving this forward. My recommendation will be a motion to continue to the next committee to hear directory from the supervisors aufs. The rud was put in for are a reason and want to make sure we do this appropriately and given alu negative ative recommendsation it gives me pause. That being said, glad to hear from the neighborhood and think it is important there is Good Community support. Given there is a conflict of opinion we need a little more time to evaluate. Chair if i may supervisor campos. Thank you. My general approach to this is to approve these unless there is a reason not to but in this case you have a recommendation of no approval by the alu and that does nt happen often so it does give me pause. I am happy to see that so many folks from the Community Came out to support this so that certainly balances, but i think the approach of continuing it so we get more information makes sense, so i support that motion. Thank you. Soecd. We have a motion and the item will be continue today the next Public Safety and Neighborhood ServiceCommittee Without objection. Mr. Clerk can we call item nive . Hearing to consider the issuance of type 64 general theater Liquor License to boxcar theater doing business as boxcar theater located akes 44 broadway street. Serve the public convenience or necessity of city and county of San Francisco. Thank you. Good afternoon. Sergeant [inaudible] San Francisco police. You have a pcu report for bax car theater at 644 broad way. They applied for a type 64 license which will allow them to operate as a theater providing be, wine beer, wine and distilled spirit. Zero letters of protest or support. They are located in plot 130 which is high crime. Census tract [inaudible] which is considered undue concentration. Central station has no opposition. Alu recommendation is approval with following conditions, loitering is kanding about without business. Prohibited on sidewalk or property adjacent to the premise under the control the licenseee on the abc 7 form. Now noise audible under the control of the licenseee on the abc 257 form. The sale of alcoholic bev erages for consumption is prohibited. Alcoholic beverages served in containers significantly differ in appearance from those containers utilized for non alcoholic beverageism containers for beer shall not exceed 16 ounces. Thaurng. Thank you sergeant kennedy. Is the project sponse erhere on this item . If you like to make brief comments. Thank you supervisor. David [inaudible] boxcar is a nonprofit theater that chs displaced from the previous home at 125 a hyde street. We have been working with owners of this property at 644 broad way to develop a theater. We raised 3 million to do so and the theater is now operating. We received our approval from the entertainment commission, Planning Commission, the helths department and Fire Department and so we were able to open for business about a month ago. We are currently service liquor, abc has giveren permission to serve licking with a licensed cater. There is limit to the number of days we can operate with a catering license so seeking a type 64 license rchlts we have support of the north beach business association, the upper broadway Community Benefit district, both submitted letters of support for our Planning Commission conditional use hearing. Supervisor peskins Office Supports squus supervisor peskin attended our Opening Celebration about 2 weeks ago in costium. The opening production is immerseive Theater Project called the speakeasy, which invites audience members to dress in 1920s garb and experience it throughout the theater in multiple chases. It is a lot of fun and supervisor peskin was there with some of the family and says he had a great experience as well. So, that is a quick overview. Any questions i can answer . No, thank you very much. In your case we got word the supervisor does support your license so thank you very much. We are remiswe were not invite today the party. We have to correct that any member thofz public that would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Motion to approve motion to move forward with pause tchb positive recommendsation and without approve with conditions. So, we move forward the recommendation wow the amendments with the conditions. We prepared a resolution. We move forward with recommendation with conditions. Do we need to no. That is recommended without objection. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Clerk for the clarification. Can we call item number 6 . Item 6, hearing to consider issuance of type 21 offsale general alcoh